hard-fisted

Example Sentences

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LaPierre’s public persona is as the hard-fisted leader of the NRA, the public face of the Second Amendment with his bombastic defense of guns, freedom and country.

From Seattle Times

Franco died in 1975, and most of the country rejoiced at the end of 36 years of hard-fisted dictatorship, a protracted coming out party that culminated in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.

From The Guardian

“It’s shamanistic thinking disguised as hard-fisted accounting. No one knows why movies sell. No one knows what makes them good. But there is a huge population whose jobs are to pretend they know what makes them sell and pretend they know what makes them good.”

From Los Angeles Times

A team without a superstar beat Kansas as a hard-fisted unit.

From Washington Post

“The government’s hard-nosed, hard-fisted approach to this has certainly fanned the flames that were already there,” said Eric Olson, a Central America expert at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington.

From Washington Post